| Potentilla palastris (L.) Scop. | |||
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| Family | Rosaceae — APG family: Rosaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Comarum palustre L. | ||
| Common name | marsh fivefinger | ||
| Description | Plant with creeping, somewhat woody rootstock; leaves pinnate, 5—7-foliate; leaf- lets oblong-lanceolate to oblanceolate, somewhat acute or obtuse, sharply serrate, dark green above, pale and more or less pubescent beneath; sepals broad, purplish on inner side, ovate, acuminate; petals brownish-purple, about half as long as sepals; achenes glabrous. | ||
| Ecology | Wet meadows, along streams, in shallow water; in the mountains to at least 1,000 meters in central Alaska. Described from Europe. | ||
| Uses | The Siberian Eskimo use the dried leaves for tea. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.